Ive been watching producer content on youtube for upwards of 6 years now and have decides only a few creators are genuinely worth watching. You are definitely on that list sir. Thank you for your service

9th wonder started off in cool edit and Fruity loops. 9th transitioned to MPC 2500 and Maschine currently...the reason he was able to do that was because he understands how to make beats. When you are experienced you can use anything...at that point it's just a matter of finding the tools that work best for your workflow. These music tools all produce the same result...it all depends on the user ...and how they rock it. If anything...the FLs , Serato Studio...etc are designed to make your workflow more efficient. So you can talk Dilla without owning an MPC, because we know it wasn't the MPC that made the beats, but the brain behind it... (Lol and this was only a few seconds into your video...right when I saw that Dilla comment I had to say something...)

Mr.D you are such an asset to the beat making community

Your videos are a Godsend! You break down & simplify much needed information in the most logical & grounded fashion! Thank you!

The added layer of psychology and easy to digest visuals combined with analogies make you stand out from other channels. Keep it up like this and you'll grow fo sho!!! Only thing I could add is invest in a better camera :) Awesome video and subscribed! Hope you make it big!

It’s soo cool that your talking about psychology and the locus of control and how we should focus on skills instead of our gear or plugins instead also I think it’s important to focus on pushing your self to learn and experiment and gain a solid skill set before forcing your self to focus on output of beats also explaining the proper path of learning is something alot of us should understand I spent so much time trying to learn all these vague skills from TRshow but couldn’t retain them to actually make it apart of my skill set this is why I find myself going back to your course time and time again because it’s these core principles that actually stick with me when making beats I’m much more interested in the why behind production decisions instead the how to’s another excellent vid navie senpai hahah

Madlib has been very open the last few years that he's been making beats on an iPad. I imagine he uses techniques he learned from Dilla. It all comes from within. The tools are just how you convert what's inside to something that is sharable outside. This video contains great advice.

Thank you for this. It confirmed a lot of what my intuition was leaning toward thinking was the right approach and perspective on beat making. Keep doing what you do. You're a G at it 🙏

This is so true. This is why I’m learning FL just to make me more versatile producer. I like being adjustable to whatever situation.

great video. i still have my SP-303 but have been using FL studio since Fruityloops 2.0. i was once told along time ago "its not the gear, its the ear". along with the video about how five producers put their d*ck in a beat before it gets to an artist being the reason why hip hop has basically been stagnating for years, im subscribing to your channel bro. i sincerely hope other people try new stuff and dont be scared to put it out there. if the worst that can happen is some one on the internet says your beats are wack then so what. my beats might not be commercially or economically viable but i do it for the love of it and have a regular job to fund my adventure. navie d is takin' back the streets!

Between some fundamental concepts and ideas, to the more intermediate breakdowns and techniques, there's been personal growth that's helped tons. The confidence established has created a work flow that's been coming in chapters, but a pace that's been helping with a myriad of styles and structures. From the outside, in - your time and effort is much appreciated. Thank you. 🤲

Thanks to you i started to emulate other beats i wanted to make and made sure i understood why the producer of the song did what they did. Then i added my own twist to it. Now i am making my own melodies and drum patterns all in a matter of a 1 ½ month. Everything is one step at a time while being confident in failing. Didn’t really bother to buy plug-ins bc Logic has good ones. Thanks for you drum kit too !

Thank you for what you did, do and continue to do fort this art. You are a blessing, no one tell or explain things like you do

"make sure to add some extra sauce on your beat if you want that bounce" killed me lmfaoooo cuz really good producers say this too. and im always like ugh be a bit specific.

man lemme just say that theres a clear point in time in which my beats got way better faster and its when i started watching you.

this video actually motivated me to stop what I was doing and make a beat to see what I really know about the fundamentals. I don't really post my beats much or anything like that but I make beats to satisfy myself - not as a job. With that said I always try to take as much control as I can, not because I want to impress someone else or to make money, but because I owe it to myself to make the best beats I can, to express myself how I want. Thanks for this.

the locus one is tricky. surely the inspiration and knowledge comes all from your personal experience and not from the gear you use, but there's just certain types of gear i don't wanna miss anymore. like bitwig's modulation system, compressors that visualize the gain reduction curve, EQs with big xy pads instead of knobs etc. and just like that an mpc can help with composing in a certain style. i wouldn't say it's required, but just reasonable. i also make different types of melodies when i compose with a keyboard instead of the piano roll, just because it inspires in a different way. so buying gear can make sense if you actually know what you wanna do with it and why it will help

That first point is a major gem! I was told by an old timer years ago: skill will always win over technology. I've seen plenty of people with loads of expensive things many dream of, and they make caca😒😂😂😂

This is crazy, I have been making music for over a year now and early on I believed so much of this stuff. Eventually, after continuous time and effort I realized that it was all non-sense, and now that I'm at peace, you posted this video to verify my thoughts. Thank you.

Really good advice for musicians! I'll take it into consideration for my future beat-making sessions.

It come down to shortcuts with daws. Whatever you're most comfortable with matters the most

This video is honestly so needed in the current culture. Honestly, most of it is just stuff I was taught during counselling. This was before I was interested in music making, and I was sent there for school since I was slacking on all of my classes. But I stayed with them because the point of the counselling sessions was about how to LEARN, and not how to do school. This video is just like that experience, cause the video isn't even about how to make beats, its about how to learn. This is a mindset you apply to learning ANY new skill. Heck, with the rubix cube example? Most of what we ACTUALLY spent counselling on was just my counsellor teaching me how to solve a rubix cube. Not through a step by step process, but with how to approach the scenario, what to look for, what patterns I want to create with it, how I can solve any rubix cube pattern. Cause he was showing me what to look for when you learn a new skill. Right now culture seems to facilitate the opposite mindset where tools, grinding without experimentation, and following shit through a step-by-step process are the ways to succeed. But no, you become better by experimenting and trying new things, seeing what works, and knowing what made them work. And sometimes people treat youtube tutorials like the "rules of art", like that one spongebob episode where squidward is teaching spongebob how to be an artist. Any form of self expression can't just be copied from 1 to 1.

This is why I started learning subtractive synthesis. I think I got the sampling stuff down pact. 🤷🏾‍♂️

For the point number 1, there’s a bunch of options in DAWs nowadays to achieve what you are looking for. I’m a Reason user and within the DAW, the regroove mixer is giving you the option the recreate the classic MPC swing, there’s even a folder of all the MPC-60 swingset. That’s why I moved on from my MPC in the early 2000s, even back then, daws were more advanced than the hardware and you could achieve so much more in your production. So many times people thought I made a beat on my mpc while I made it in Reason, just because of how a MPC should sound compared to a software

You're right Navie..... especially speaking on your 1st advice. Whether you are using state of the art equipment and plugins or just a cheap laptop with GarageBand, it's ultimately your own creativity and perseverance to learn all aspects of the craft that makes you a better beat maker or producer, not the equipment.

I make beats on my mobile phone using Bandlab as DAW and i am more relying on my skills than my tools. Tools are important but the result depends more on my musical skills. And I'm still learning and honing my craft.

This is exactly why I bought your course Navie. I was legit going in circles watching tutorial after tutorial and not really understanding the premise and fundamentals of production as you said. When ppl make tutorials you can only really take their word that they know what they’re talking about. The more tutorials you watch though the more you can weed out the ppl that actually know what they’re talking about and those who don’t. You on the other hand always give us such quality information and explain things so well, which is why I didn’t hesitate to buy your course

Such a relevant topic! Pay attention, kids. Navie D is dropping gems of experience and deep thinking here.

I first used Ableton, then switched to FL Studio and noticed in the learning process that FL is more suitable for me.

Team Navie Dizzle. Love these videos. Thank God for the better beatmaker course

what a cool dude, but fr tho in all honesty i be doing 2/3 of the stuff you said not to do on this vid and im just glad that you have informed me and possible hundreds of other people of what they're doing particularly nonbeneficial for their creative endeavors and development

Another great vid Navie! Have you ever considered making a Trip-Hop tutorial or some of the other niche sub genres of hiphop?

Would you be able to show how to make a BROCKHAMPTON type beat? I know those videos don't really teach people, but I have an idea. Make a beat that you come up with based on the sound, and breakdown why you used certain things. Show how different things can contribute to making a beat like theirs. (Doesn't need to be BROCKHAMPTON, I just think they have a unique sound)

Nobody who actually makes beats thinks you need an MPC to make beats. But with that said, if somebody created a sampler plugin that worked like the MPC 4K's OS and had the same workflow as that machine, I'd snap it up in a heartbeat.

Yes. Yes yes yes yes yes. "You are the reason you can make good beats, not your program." I realized this years ago when I was starting to get GAS but snapped out of it and limited myself to just stock FL stuff, and now I'm making music my younger self wouldn't begin to know how to make. Literally a skill issue 🤣🤣 CONCEPTS AND PRACTICE OVER EVERYTHING!!! 💃💃💃

This video was it. A lot of new tutorial videos nowadays are just people advertising a new plugin. Then I was thinking I needed to the plug in. But this video helped with that issue.

Another thing I often find people do is they believe more in a beat is better, if you don’t have more than 15 loops your beat’s gonna suck, which is baloney. Sure if made well you can make some super intricate beats but it’s often best (especially as a beginner) to go sweet and simple.

There is definitely nothing you can do in a MPC that you can't do in a DAW.

I think the worst idea people have these days is that they want to post there beats everywhere online and just let people use them.... In my opinion, there is no better way than to make friends and just work with people.

I also suggest you guys should reverse engineer songs. you'll get better at layering sound selection arrangement and mixing just follow along with the song in your daw

I personally think I have my locus controls on both external and internal. I think my beats are bad/amateur because 1) I don't use high-end plugins and 2) I'm still a beginner + I get beat/producer block a lot

I really needed to hear this.. I've been stressing myself out about posting. Thank you!!

This video better blow up.. lol So much value here. Preciate it, Navie!

The exact reason why I don’t post my beats online. I just send them to a few people for feedback and that’s it.

That’s a really great, helpful video for a successful mindset

Mr. D is my favorite teacher by far. 👍

I'm pretty sure if you gave Dilla a couple sticks and a rock he would be creating some fire....nature always finds a way...regardless the tools.

Wow this is all true. I seen some post 7 or 8 beats a day. I be like thats to much. Are they learning anything or just posting to be posting. Great share 👍

Dilla didn’t only use an Mpc 3000 or Mpc 60. Dilla used an sp-1200 and a Roland sp-303 also . His style was his style, wasn’t because of the Mpc

te amo mucho hermano

Wow dad you’re so smart, love the knowledge thank you

I am guilty of posting every day only because of TRshow's scheduling feature. Also, I am not worried about ridicule or pleasing others. Ya, I have slow growth (4 years in and only 1.8k subs), but growth nonetheless. I guess having a job outside of this and not having to stress by pleasing others helps me produce whatever I like, which in turn builds fans that truly appreciate me for who I am as a creator. 🔥fellow/producer and subscriber here 🙌🏽 peace from Japan 🍣

To each their own... everybody does things differently

There is a cool phrase.: "Do the best with what you've got!"

I agree on the first and last one, I agree on the second as well, but with a little added to the answer, I say you should every now and then showcase your beats somewhere, don't upload daily but every now and then... The youtube tutorials really suck, I started learning by randomly fuckin around fl studio button and stuff, but when I started watching tutorials I didn't make any progress, and the beats were sounding repetitive, I was like using same pattern again and again... but a few channels really helped like yours.

I see too many talented producer posting always the same beats everyday from years 😢

On rule 2. I believe Music is a gift you are giving to the world and no one likes crappy half baked gifts. So in agreement there. However if you are good enough to post every day then post away. I think it’s also bad if you spend too much time on one song get it super perfect then post it and then Crickets. I try to capture a moment and a vibe. Sometimes it’s hard to gauge a beat. Sometimes you have to move on or circle back to it and work on something else. But you should try to learn a new skill or concept every day.

*you should always put a soft clipper on the master channel*

Benn Jordan's power user video on FL Studio totally sold me on it.

lol Dilla used multiple samplers and synths depending what was available at the time. MPC is most known but Dilla didn't start with an MPC. Do like Dilla actually did: use whatever available and within your reach

All great advice. Thanks.

So is better beatmaker meant for someone going into their second year of beatmaking?

*As i started with fruity loops, people said, beats cool but this Tool is for hobbyist. This hurts me back in the days. Since Then i started my journey and used cubase, pro tools, reaper, milky tracker, renoise tracker, ableton live, Studio one and Maschine mk3. From my Perspective He is totally right but the usability of a tool can change the way of producing your ideas. If you work with a tracker, IT is totally different to live, cubase, pro tools and fl. You think music different. Working with Maschine is really fun, especialy If you learn some basic Finger drumming. AT the end, everything you Do are arranging frequencies over time in a context of rhytmic structure, so in 99,9 % of time the Tool does not matter. Just feel good with it and Do not let envy bitches Tell you, that your Tool in beeing creative is worse than the other.*

I think if you start off with fl studio you will be way more advantageous.

I agree whatever you said sir 🤝🏻

Locusts of control. Very fitting title for them👌

this is really super great

Or are successful people more likely to attribute more of their success to themselves, whereas unsuccessful people feel that they are in their situation despite their efforts?

NavieD.... I've had my windows Hp laptop.. Super cheap 279.00... I've been using this 2 years.. I'm pretty sure it wasn't made to make music... Also for head phones I've been using Hesh Evo skull candy's... For speakers I've used JBL Flip 5. I practiced with Reason 10.2.2 trial For a bit... Then got FL Studio trail mode as well.. Then I got the fire edition cause the controller.... It completely flipped my learning experience and didn't help me at all.. I've been saving... If you could get a new setup How should I go about it.. I want the full FL I don't want the beat of things I just want to do this right.. 🔥🤘🥀

Thanks. I’ll see you later TRshow. Time to start the Better Beat Maker’s course that I purchased last year.

i cant believe someone posted that "dont have mpc dont talk on j dilla" comment had me dying. i find this really funny because there is a lot of toxic people in hardware and daw camps, even though its been shown that platinum records and songs get made on cheap laptops and headphones with very little equipment. its not what you have its how you use it. i bet the guy that posted that would also think that a mpc from the 90s offers more than a modern pc or even a ni maschine. dense!

I don't even see how you can post music literally everyday anyways unless you're producing full-time. I guess it also depends on what genre you're producing and since you're referring to "beats" I can imagine you're referring hip-hop/trap/other sub-genres under that umbrella, I feel like those types of beats take less overall time to make compared other genres. Correct me if I'm wrong though. I have a full-time job plus trying to make music mostly for fun on the side, so I'm lucky if I can complete a few tracks in a month, let alone one track per day.

You the 🐐 bro 💯

@Navie D always brings the extra wavy sauce❤

Well done.

what's your computer setup? you should do a video on that. i'm in the market for a new laptop for music prod so it would be great info imo.

MPC snobbery makes even less sense than hardware synth snobbery.

"The Departed" reference at 2:27 👏🏽👏🏽👍🏽

Skills gets you a job. The tools allow you to create jobs.

give this man a tuba!

Naw , I listen to timbo … he said FL and Ableton are good daws . He said Logic sounds bad . This is coming from a mega producer , thats speaking the truth . I used a MV 8000 beat machine and I used FL 3 when I was little , that was 2003 ! I have notice different daws and machine has different sound frequencies , some some thick and some sound thin .

Insane quality

I agree with the mpc comment, tho. MPC is a different beast, sound, and swing that cannot be duplicated

wowwww a no nonsense you tuber. hard to find these days. nice 1 Navie!

you da GOAT, Navie! 🔥🔥🔥

I’m patriotic when it comes to Ableton Live. FL feels like a toy.

Dumb idea #4. Your bass should only be 808, sub sine, or a sample. Make a hip hop beat with edm bass, play with overtones, it's fun

I think the understanding behind dilla mpc talk was banter or an open ended statement. I get it, what the person was probably saying is that the way dilla used the mpc was unique to what other producers did at the time. And if you don’t understand the pioneering that dilla made with the mpc, don’t come after him. But the question is come after what about him? I don’t think it was about you need this to be better. But I do think the locus of control statement is needed with many producers. Countless people retain the same ways hoping that the external will pick them up when it’s them that needs to work harder!

Great content

Most TRshow tutorials are made by a bunch of "producers" who just really want to flex their Young Thug type beat making skills. Very few people on YT actually help actual producers.

Lol at thinking a skateboarder with a year of experience is landing kickflips 95% of the time.

Peace ur content is great Mr. D I HAVE A MPC LIVE and a MPC STUDIO 2, FL 21, PROTOOLS and STUDIO ONE 5 that don't mine 💩like 808's tuned and in key. Ur melody sound great but the drums r not sounding or placed properly or tuned to ur liking. I'm a beginner but have a gd ear for music if it do not fit and the sound is off it's not the DAW or wt EQUIPMENT u have it's all about fixing and figuring it out. Peace....

I didnt watch the full video, and I am not biased but putting one philosophical idea onto a spectrum is ignorance. When I say this it’s coming from someone who knows apt about both philosophy and music. And you think you know both but you have not articulated either. There’s a big difference in making something work vs being articulate about it. You make yourself work as a TRshowr who makes corky video about musics and stupidly mix psychology into it, you articulate when you think about yourself when you read this comment. I was about to tell you something precious at the end but thought about ending with a bullshit.

Me who uses fl studio mobile and has no equipment whatsoever💀 Not sure if I should feel better, but I'll do what I can.

Dilla made Donuts of pro tools.

I NEED MY TOOLS!

that’s completely true

I'mma need that wavy sauce plug-in!

I agree with you as a mobile beat maker

Whats your view on Native Maschine?